Robert Lee Emery of Valparaiso died with honor on October 15, 1950 in the Korean War. He lived on Blackhawk Beach on Flint Lake in Valparaiso and attended Central Junior High before going to work at Carnegie-Illinois at US Steel. He enlisted in the US Army in 1949 and by September, 1950 after nearly a year in Japan was in Korea in the thick of a confusing war. July 27 is National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, so we want to recognize and honor the nearly 50,000 Americans killed in that war.